Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper in his efforts to accept prevailing thought that the way to deal with a problem is to do things that make the problem so bad that it becomes unsolvable and therefore it is useless to even think about it; …
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Kickass and the Gray Morning
Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the gray curtain of falling snow on a late January morning is as welcomed by the keeper as would be a flood of frigid winter sunshine. The slowly emerging muted day marks the beginning of yet another week when the …
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Kickass and Winter Car Starting
Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway) from Oslo, Norway, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper on another of his—the keeper’s, “good ol’ days” rants, this one comparing present day automatic remote car starters with such things as hand engine cranks and frozen boiled-out radiators and frozen oil …
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Kickass and Eating Sandhill Cranes
Dori, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in passing along word that the Wisconsin legislature sets a sterling example of how to relax in the face of extreme duress as it responds to Sen. Mary Felzkowski’s recent invitation to gather in her office to enjoy sandhill …
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Kickass and High Speed Rail to Nigeria
vige, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper hopes to ride Wisconsin’s high-speed train—from Madison to Nigeria as soon as the Repubs get the rails down, which is being done by a company headed by Scott Walker who, as Wisconsin governor, …
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Kickass and Leopold’s Birthday
Pacific Southwest Region 5, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that while the keeper mentioned recent January birthdays, he missed Aldo Leopold’s on Jan.11 which marked 135 years since Leopold’s birth in 1887. (Leopold died in 1948 of a heart attack while fighting a wildfire on neighbor’s property.) …
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Kickass and Compression Helmets
Fred Kissel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper in developing the “Compression helmet,” which will work like compression socks to improve cranial blood circulation, particularly in the brains of those Republicans who suffer from the varicose big lie. Republican mandates to wear the compression …
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Kickass Watches Cold Football
Midwest Communications, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper had not watched a football game for many years but tuned into the Packer’s-Vikings Sunday spectacle to reassure himself that sports fans were just as hopeless as they were many years ago when he did a cover story about sports …
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Polar Bear Diary
Photo by Mark Mamerow Article by Mark Mamerow Mara and I arrived at Wahl Avenue and parked at about 11:30 am—X minus 30 minutes to the January 1st Polar Bear plunge at Milwaukee’s Bradford Beach. People were getting out of their cars. You could identify the Polar Bears. They carried cloth shopping bags of towels and shoes, and …
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Kickass and Ignorant Senator
Phil Roeder from Des Moines, IA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that being “first” is something that should not be ignored, and so Sen. Johnson’s anti vaccine stand which marks him as “the most ignorant man in the US Senate” calls for acknowledgment …
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Kickass and the Republican Christmas
RAHurd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper in absorbing the sad, sad story of how the narcissistic dishonesty of Wisconsin Republicans has turned the state into a political garbage dump, as it was told Tuesday by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. That ten Wisconsin Repubs forged an …
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Kickass and Kraus Getting Old List
Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper to update a list of tips for dealing with getting old as it was originally drafted by Bill Kraus, one of the late, great Republicans in Wisconsin’s political history. In addition to Bill’s advice to …
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